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Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-23
OUR PRIMER.

ooh! Mamma, There Is That Very
Big Man Again" 81 See Him My
Love-" 'It Is Our Republican Contem-
porary Isn't 1t Mammal" eyes, My
Dear" "But Look! Mamma, How The
Very Big Man Blows And Puffs." eyes
My Love-" "And See Mamma, How
The Sweat Rolls Off OF Our Republican
Contemporary" eyes NV Dear"
"What Makes The Very Big Man Blow
And Puff And Sweat So Mamma ?"
"He Has Evidently Been In A Hurry
Ny Love-" "Did The Very Big Man
Run When He Was In A Hurry Nam
map" eyes My Dear" "What Did
The Very Big Man Run When He
Was In A Hurry, Mammal" "The
United States Government, My Love-"
"And Is He Running The United States
Government Yet, Mammal" "No My
Child, The Hurry OF Our Republican
Contemporary Is All Over Now"
Mamma, Who Are All Those Men
Standing On the Street Corners of Salt
Lake City?" "They Are Real Estate
Buyers and Sellers, My Love-" "And,
Mamma, What Is All That Noise We
Hear of Saws and Hammers?" "The
Noise Is Caused by Men Who Are Build
ing Up the City, My Dear" "And,
Mamma, What Is the Buying and Selling
of Real Estate, and the Building Up of
the City Called? p" "They Are Known
AS the Signs of the Great Salt Lake
Boom, Ny Child" "But, Look Mann
ma, What Is That Thing Crawling Along
the Street?" "That Is Our Mormon
Morning Contemporary, My Dear. 4"
"What Makes Our Mormon Morning
Contemporary Crawl, Mammal" "Be-
cause, My Love, He Was Never Taught
to be Upright" "What Is He Feeling For
Along the Street, Mamma ?" He Is Feel
ing For the Hole He Says the Salt Lake
Boom Has Crawled Into, My Dear"
"Why, Mamma, The Boom Is All Around
Him." eyes, My Love, But Our Poor
Mormon Contemporary Cannot See 1t.
He Is Blind" ''But, Mamma, 1 Can
not See Our Morning Mormon Contem-
porary Any More" ''No, My Love, He
Has Disappeared" "Where Has He Gone
So Quick, Mammal" "He Has Found
The Hole And Crawled Into 1t Himself,
My Child"
Mamma, l am Tired This Evening""
Yes, My Love, So Is Mamma"
What Makes Us So Tired, Mamma ?"
Because, My Dear, We Have Walked
Very Far This Evening"" elbow Far
Have We Walked This Evening, Nam
map" "All Of The Distance Between |
Two Salt Lake City Lamp Posts, My
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-23
THE NEW "PROFITS. )"

The Republican paper of Salt Lake,
(To indulge in significant binting,)
An interest in the League doth take,
And furnishes Committee on Printing.
That the paper is making good deal,
And upon the cause of advance
Is impressing the Republican seal,
All can see at glance.
For while Utah has prophets of every grade,
In valley, In hamlet and city,
These prophets of old are cast in the shade
By the new profits of the Printing Com
mittee
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-23
Suicide.

DR.. FLNT's HEART REMEDY has saved
more lives by timely use, and has kept
from the insane asylum more victims of
nervous disorders, than all the physicians
with their pet methods of treatment. At
druggists. $3.50. Descriptive treatise
with each bottle, or address ]. J. Mack
& Co, s. f.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-23

WHIrELAw REID says "that he has not
gone back on Blaine" This trifing on
Whitelaw's part is a fearful strain on the
Nation, and is most reprehensible. He
should at once "Reid" James in or out
of the convention.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-23

CYCLONES, tornadoes, whirlwinds, and
hailstorms are reported to be- following
the recent track of Mr.. Blaine through
the Southwest. Evidently James G. his
prediction for convulsing the country.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-23

THE Park City Call has considerable
to say about ballot-box stuffing This is
not to be wondered at, as the Cali makes
a speciality of stuff
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-03-19
RISK or aUmADLIFa.
Going to Sea in an Iron seivs-s tea1nships
That are DeathtEaps.

L
That are DesthtEaps.
An iron steamship proportional ike a
coffin lay at an East river wharf the
other day. There was an indescribable
sneaEng look about her that attracted
my attention as I strOlled by, and went
over to examine her at short range. She
looked sound enough with her iron hall,
her iron mssts and spars, her iron deck
houses and wire rigging. But there
was sort Of machine made air about
her that made her cheap aud common to
the eye and marked her as one OF the
tramp freight boats that have robbed the
merchant service Of all picturesqueness
and romance. A grizzled man, whose
tanned face stamped him q sailor ia spite
Of his conventional brORdelOth suit, had
stopped ike myself, and was watching
the donkey engine jerk bundles Of steel
rails abroad with angry snstches, as if
sick Of the job. He nodded to me and
said:
''That's the way they do It nowadays.
They'll have the Plimson mark under
water before they cover the matches, and
look at this.''
He went to edge Of the wharf, and,
with thumb nail as hard as horn
scraped the sad green painted side Of
the iron coffin. A scale Of rust two
inches long fell into the water,
''She's sieve," he said. ''There isn't
foot Of her above and under water that
you can't do the same to. Here now"
A rafting shower Of rust scales fol-
lowed the scratch of his thumb along the
metal. Some OF them were as big as a
dollar. One Of the mates, who was su-
pervising the shipping OF the rails, call
ed from above with an oath to know
what we were doing. The ancient mariner
placidly replied:
''We're calculating what latitude and
longitude you'll founder in. Take my
advice, mate, and sleep in the ifebOat. -
The mate cursed us picturesquely till
We were out OF hearing. Ny marine &C
qualntance remarked as we navigated
the miry and perilous street, that he had
sailed In the Liverpool trade for thirty
years, but never in an iron ship. A craft
like that one was as safe to go to sea in
as a colander or a ship made of painted
wire netting. Yet you could always find
men desperate enough to 60 to sea in
such, deep loaded with freight and in
the worst Of weather. And when they
never reached the voyages end, people
spoke Of the dreadful perils Of the sea
and never OF the reckless greed OF the
men who stayed ashore to coin fortunes
at the risk of human lives.
"Ihey build them out of rubbish, -
said my friend, as he stirred his toddy
and shifted the steam like incense. "Ghe
only decent work about them is their en-
gines, and they don't amount to much.
They feed the fires with refuse coal and
drive them through all weathers. The
load is never so heavy that they cannot
be made to carry, nor too old to carry
the heaviest load Here's luck to the
poor devils on that Black Maria. 1t will
be a lucky day for them if they set foot
ashore again after this voyage. The
Lord stand by them, for they need ="
We drank the toast in pious silence. I
shall watch the papers for LEWIS that
the--Of Bristol is overdue and new
er makes her port.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-03-19
Children without Games.
From Good Words.

An idiosyncrasy Of the children is
their paucity of games and general inca
pacity for play. However, It may be &C
counted for, by social tendencies, their
food, or other poverty stricken causes.
Highland boys and girls cannot only
not play with the rOllicking, robust
abandon and enjoyment of their Saxon
brothers and sisters, but can scarcely be
said to play properly at all They run
about, are happy, and even joyous, but
their repertOry of sports is of the most
limited kind, and most Lowland games
are unknown. The games OF camsnach
or shinty, putting the stone. tossing the
caber, and other so called Highland
sports belong TO manhood, and are con-
fined to young men, though at times the
children do mildly attempt some OF
them. They much prefer to loII about
on the grass, or play at quiet ''tig' or
touching each other. They seem devoid
Of the inborn suppressed steam and tur-
bulence of the south, which makes boy
hood and girlhOOd so beautifully noisy,
restless and troublesome, but healthy.
have heard Lowland teachers grieve at
this want Of games, which impressse
them painfully, and at their own non
success IN trying to introduce some.
The games hOurished, at the best, only
when fostered by themselves, and then
died out, killed by the climate Of the
Ossianic misty melancholy that seems to
cling, even to the children to become a
settled tone in manhood and age in
average and adult Highlanders tend
ency increased no doubt by their over
severe Oalvinism. The boys, notwith-
standing delight in physical exercise In
e mild way. There is one thing they
certainly can do, and they do it extreme
" well-and that is, they can run and race
with each other. The clean and rapid
style Of their running, done all below
the launches, without useless hitching
Of frame and shoulders, is remarkable;
as seen, for example, running behind a
carriage on the way to the Quiraing, in
Skye. To this tkey are unwisely tempt
ed by the eOpPers OF the tourist, who, as
a rule, consults only his own present
pleasure, without a moments considsra-
tiOa o. the moral effects on its subjects
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-03-19
An Example Of Curious Instinct.

A curious case of what seemed like
abstract reasoning came under my OBJ
servatOn several years ago, while at the
home of a cousin. The poultry of the
farm consisted Of a few chickens and a
pair Of guinea fowls. Some animal
found its way to the rOost and created
havoc among the chickens. The next
night the guinea fowls forsoOk their
accustomed place, and cane to an out
building near the house and spent the
night on its root The chicken rOost
was an open shed, and, In spite Of all
precautions, the chickens disappeared
night after night, till there was but one
hen left. The next night she settled her
self IN her usual place. The guineas
took their roof early, but soon began to
move about uneasily and finally Few
down and ran to the chicken shed.
was attracted by their unusual move
ments,S and watched them carefully.
They soon re- appeared, bringing the hen
with them. But the hen was unwilling
to leave her shed, and vBrious ezpedients
were resorted to, to urge her along.
Sometimes the guineas would both run
forward a short distance, and then back,
calling all the time IN such discordant
tones as only guinea fowls can make;
then they would walk slowly by her side;
again, they would drive her, In real or
pretended anger. Two or three times
the hen started back toward her roOst,
but the guineRs Eesolutely stood in her
way. In the course Of a few minutes
the persistent little fowls succeeded IN
bringing her TO the building. Now a
new difficulty arose. First one Of the
guineas, then the other, and then both,
would fly up on the ridge and then fly
down again and wait. At last the hen,
seeming to understand, flew up and sat
upon the ridge. At once the guineaa
few up, one on each side Of her, and
settled for the night. The next night
all came quietly to rOOst, and this con-
tinusd for the remainder OF the summer.
Was it instinct, or was It a glimmering
Of reason, mixed with little Of what We
humans call "brOtherly kindness?"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-03-19
habits of Printers.


Printers, as a rule, are not a proEident
class, although they receive wages equal
to these Of nearly any skilled mechanic
and larger than many. A type setter on
q morning paper, if he be stfast' man.
usually ''Pastes upia string at the end Of
the week that viii meRsure hin all the
way from $I8 to S2S. Theexpert nom
ing newspaper printer seldom works over
five nights a week. He generously con-
tributes one Of his nights' work to the
sub Who Is posted on the fOFeman's
list, and who Is either unable to secure
regular Losses" or who is "carrv'ng the
banner from town to town. The areou.
lar" who lays OF Ia this way Is rarely
other than a generous fellow. He Is
anxious that his less fortunate craftsman
may have chance to earn a few dollars.
and while he Is idle is not frs0uentl y
found spending his money with a lavish
hand This, however, was ra3re STRICTLY
the case In days gone by, when a Drints1
was not printer until he had cireurn.
naV1geted the globe OF travelled at least
over the Enghsh-speaking part OF it
The printer nowadays who wandees from
place to place Is regarded with more OF
less suspicion.
A printer whose eyes have become
elEn from following the boxes, and whose
shoulders have been bent until his CHR
rests almost upon his chest, from his
lifelong toll at the "cass," told me The
other day that he had been setting tvpe
for thirty years. During that time. q
be said 81 have held cases in every CITY
Of over 100000 inhabitants In the United
I States and have canned from SI5 to SIC
q week In the days Of the rebellion ]
worked in Philadelphia for awhile, and
earned so much money IN four niQhte
/ that my time during the succeeding
three days OF the week was fully oc
euPied IN getting nd Of It. Other print
eEs we're like me-ih fact. there were nol
aalf dozen VAC saved apytbiBg. sipes
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-03-19
The Orion Diamond.
Chsmberls Journal.

Chambers journal.
This magnificent gem, which in its
rough state formed the eye Of an idol in
temple near Trichinopoli, was stolen by
Frenchman, who escaped with his prize
to Persia, and who, fearful of being dis
gotten gear for sum Of about 60, 900.
The man who bought the stone, a Jewish
merchant, sold it to one Shafras, an as
tute Armenian, for SO, 600. Shafras had
conceived the idea that by carrying the
stone to Russia he would obtain from the
Empires Catharine the Great a princely
sum for it. How to travel in safety with
the stone, the theft of which had of course
been discovered and proclaimed, became
a grave consideration. It was too large
to swallow, and no mode of conceRlment
presented itself to Shafras that seemed
secure from discovery. The way in which
he solved the problem was remarkable.
He made deep incision in the teshy
part of his left leg, in which he inserted
the stone. closing the wound carefully by
sewing it up with silver thread. When
the wound healed the Armenian merchant
set out on his travels quite boldly, and
although more than once apprehended,
vigorously searched, and even tortured a
little, he was Obdur8te, and finally de-
MED having the stone in his possession.
Having at length reached his destina-
ton he asked from the empress the sum
Of e40, 600 for the gem, an amount Of
money which CathRrine was unable to
raise at the moment. We next find the
Armenian at Amsterdam with the inten-
ton of having his diamond cut. Here
the stone was seen by Count Orloff, who
determined to purchase it for presentR-
ton to his royal mistress, the Empress
Catharine. The sum ultimately paid
for the gem was about 10000 sterling
In cash; together with annuity Of $500
and a patent Of nobility, Shafras
fourished exceedingly and died mil
ionaire. Such, in brief, is the story OF
the OrIoff diamond
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-03-19

/ gets locked In. An IN the mornin' wen
the man opens it We chances It to get
out. We hides near the door, wen he's
gone In 90 where it's mostly shadders,
then We slips out. But it's awful, sir,
with those marble people all about you,
an all so still, /"
shiVered as listened.
"YOu shall stay here tonight" / said.
And then I made them bed In q closet
just OF my room
After that they came every night
OF course there was a row with the
company, but I reminded them that 1
had the privilege Of having models come
TO my studio. And il chose to have
them sleep there, I would. If they OBJ
iecteds why, my rent would be useful
elsewhere. That ended it.
In time my picture was finished, and
went TO the academy. twas well, received
well hung, and brought a good word from
Ruskin. Then the public wanted to
know who was, for the papers were
full Of ''AIy Little Match Girl
And who can tell how rich I felt when
Lord LansdOwne paid me- a couple Of
hundred for it, and came with his friends
to see my "Sir Walter. and bought that
also?
The tide had turned. No more work
ing for Jews. No more poverty for my
little match girl and her little brother
They should be educated and cared for,
my children from henceforth. God bless
their dear souls.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-03-19
Changed Her Mind

San Francisco Chronicle.
She goes to school, and she belongs to
an educational family of prominence,
who have lately novel from San Fran
cisco for official convenience. So she
has had to go to school. The first
day she found that, contrary to her ex-
perience, boys and girls were together
In this school. That offended her, and
when she went home she complained.
''MammR, that's not a good school. ]
don't think I'll like to stay there"
''Why3"
'There are boys and girls all together
there. 1t isn't pleasant"
"Wen, my dear, try it a little any
way"
The next day she came home in a
better humor.
'DO you ike the new school any bet
terY''
ooh, yes mamma. The teacher has
put the Ioveliest little boy next to me.
He's lovely little boy. I think shall
like the school"
The third day she came home In the
widest Of spirits, beamiDg all over.
''Oh, mammal know all the boys in
school nowl''
This is one Of those sad stories that
good mothers like to read. so I am told,
and 1 have no reason to doubt It.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-03-19
aIisused Words.

Twesd's New Grammar.
Acoustics is always singular.
Cut bias and not cut on the bias
Allow should not be used for adnais.
Come to see me, and not come and ssa
me.
Bursted is not elegant, and is rarely
correct.
Almost, with a negative lie ridiculous
almost nothing is absurd.
The burden Of a song means the -
frain OF. chorus, not its sense or meaning
Bountiful applies to persons, net g
things, and has no reference to quansl-
AffabIe only applies when speaA4ae
of the manner Of guperiors to lnssflslas
AIethinks is formed by the inapesa0as1
verb think. meaning SEEM ana the -
tive me; and Is literally rendereos -
seems to me"
Admire should not be followed Hisa
the infinitivs. Never say as many 60
I Il should admire to 60 with you -
This error is aiRgulaEly fasiiicnaols s--s
now.
AIiade is nov frequently misaz
when a thing is nameds spoken Of o. g.
ssribed it should only be used
anvtbinr Is limited at 80 plaEEel
easing manner. 'aAliusicn g ta9
I piay Of language
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-03-19
A rnrELx DISCOURSE.
Bob Burdette EEpounds Roman M thoIogy
ina NsWIAnd Newell way.
BrooklynE Eagle

Brooklyn Eagle.
The month of January, dear children.
Is 80 named for Janus. Janus was a
MugWump. That Is, he was a god '<ith
a little g, VINO looked both ways at once.
He looked at the year that went out, but
he stuck TO the year that calnein. Janus
knew which administration distributed
the postOfiees, and he never eli ned into
the cart until ne saw the melons loaded.
Consequently he never made the mistake
Of climbing into the empty cart. And
then when the year went out Janus was
away on at the other end OF II, as far as
possible remsVed from any connection
with It. Whenever the doors of ths
temple OF Janus were open, everybody
knew there was war, for they were closed
only il time OF peace. The only time a
MugWunp is peaceful is when you shut
him up. January was out In the cold
for thousands Of years until the Roman
emperor Numa added it to the year. He
said he did it to make the Roman hOli-
days more NumarOus. Then they butch
cred him to make another one, which
was rigat. Among the sacrifices offered
to Janus were Excelsior diaries and good
resolutions. Originally the month had
but tWenty-nlne days, but after the dis
covery OF America it was found that this
didn't give a young man time to break
ali the resolutions he made on the first
day of the month, so julius Cesar, who
had more time than he knew what to do
with, added two days to it. The art of
adding a few odd days to a month when
ever you wanted more Uime is a lost
science. Anybody can spend a week,
but no man can save up ten days so as
to have them sometime when he has a
note In bank or wants to put of Christ
mas a week or two. The Scandiavians
call this month Thor, hence we have the
frequent January thor. The Romans
adopted the LIST Of January as New Years
day 251 years B. @. Then after all the
rest OF the world had SO observed it
about 1900 years, in 1851, A D., the
English parliament passed an act declar-
ing it to be SO. And vet some ignorant
people say the English parliament is
conservative. The English people of
New York City think the month was
named after one Of the 'Enrys end still
call it january.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-03-19
Relic or '0s.
New York Sun

New York sun.
A large green silk banner was shown
at the rooms OF the Gaelic society No. II
West Twenty eighth street, one after
noon recently. tits a relic of the stormy
days Of the Irish instruction OF '98, and
is said t. have been carried by the insur-
gents at the battles of Vinegar Hill
ArkloW, New Ross, Enniscorthy, and
Oulart Hill, where the patriotic Father
Murphy met his death while leading on
his brave band. In the center OF the
banner appears the sunburst; in the
midst Of its rags stands out the sinewy
form Of the Irish Kerlle his clairSeach,
OF harp, thrown over bis shoulders,
while he clutches in his hands a battle
ak, apparently IN the act Of making an
attack on the PROSTATE form Of massive
lion which lies at his feet. The banner
itself, independent Of its historic assOcia-
tons, is really an artistic specimen Of
Irish needlegork of the period in which
it was made. 1t is the property OF Mr..
Robert j. Cutler, Of Waterford, Ireland,
a hneal descendant Of one OF the partici-
pants of the rebellion, who has lent it to
Mr.. W. 81. Powers, who has kindly con-
scented to its exhibition at the rooms OF
the Gaelic society this evening.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-03-19
Stool BroIers, Slang.


San Francisco Chronicle.
The stock brokers are looming up
again. They've been alternating for
long time, but they've crept out Of thsis
holes lately and made another little raid
on the loose purses. They've got away
with a good deal of fur, too, this time.
The slang Of stock speculation has al
most become a lost literature. Down In
Paupsr alley among the even hopeful
chippsrs the familier terms Of the mar
ket have been preserved, but the public
have forgotten most Of the expressions
with which they were intimately &C
quainted a few years ago, which it cost
them so much to learn and so much 70
part with. But the brokers are coming
out with the old jargon, and this little
deal has been so lively that it has added
several new words to the depleted vocs5-
ulary. The old ones still come to the
front. The brokers met the other day.
The deal had introduced them to one an
other, and one asked the other TO
.ner.
1--WE got to go home. I'm married,
you know.
fW4ll. that's nothing. I'm long my
self on that stock"